Got this from Donny: Steiner Ranch HOA is currently looking for bands and musicians from within the community who are interested in performing at a fun music event later this summer.  This will be our own little SXSW or Austin City Limits festival, featuring the talent of Steiner Ranch residents.  We have scheduled a date of Saturday Sept. 26th for our first annual “Steiner-Palooza”, which we will be staging at the Bella Mar community [...]

June 4th 11:30am-1pm: Celebrate 10 years with Emancipet at their 10th anniversary Luncheon. Emancipet’s Site Luncheon will be held at Lofty Dog in downtown Austin Map [...]

I was inspired by Heather’s post to talk about traffic and my general commute. I have a couple so here goes… 1. I live past the middle school so every day I have to negotiate traffic in that area. I have my ways. This does not increase traffic in the area, but I see that a lot of parents drop their kids off at the middle school at the entrance… so they wait in line and drop them about 40 feet in front of the door. Seriously? Call me [...]

Anyone know anything about this? I’ve heard some rumors and I’ve been told they are redoing traffic counts to possibly put stoplights in Steiner. I’m not really sure how I feel about this…on one hand it would be nice because there are so many angry stop sign skippers in the morning and a lot of traffic towards the front (Steiner Ranch Blvd/Quinlan), but at the same time it would make it feel like more of a city instead of a [...]

Two interesting articles 1 2 I looked at the tax rates on a Steiner Ranch home and see two WCID 17 entries which I assume is to pay down a MUD like River Place has. I wonder if that is the case and how long it will take to pay it off. If we do get annexed into the City of Austin I assume we would negotiate that down or try not to get annexed until those two rates are off our books. If they were would we want to even be annexed. The good/bad [...]